Re: Net SNMP Agent

Dave Shield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2010/1/14 Ashish vashishtha <[email protected]>:
> if i make my process p1 as a net snmp subagent using agentx than will the
> snmp master agent(SNMPD) will forward all the incoming requests to P1

No.   Not necessarily.

> (as there can be more than one sub-Agent)?

Each subagent will register with the master agent,
specifying the OID range(s) that it implements.
The master agent then uses this information to pass
each requested varbind to the appropriate subagent.


> is it possible to filter incoming requests from the snmpd to
> the p1 based on the range of the OIDs ?
> if yes than how this filtering can be done.

That is the natural operation of AgentX.
Please see the AgentX specs, or any recent SNMP book for details.

Dave

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